43rd AEC ANNUAL CONGRESS and GENERAL ASSEMBLY Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg Diversity, Identity and Inclusion 1 Thanks to the sponsors: www.asimut.com The AEC would like to express deep gratitude to the Director of the Academy of Music and Drama Gothenburg Thomas Jäderlund and the team at the Academy coordinated by Kenneth Hedlund for their tremendous support in organizing the AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 2016 in Gothenburg 2 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION – Diversity, Identity and Inclusion ............................................................ 6 PROGRAMMES .................................................................................................................................... 7 Congress Programme ................................................................................................................. 7 Thursday 10 November ..................................................................................................................... 7 Friday 11 November............................................................................................................................ 8 Saturday 12 November .................................................................................................................... 11 Music Performances ................................................................................................................. 13 ABSTRACTS, BIOGRAPHIES of the SPEAKERS and INFORMATION DOCUMENTS ..... 15 Opening Event, Speech by Guest Speaker ...................................................................... 16 Plenary Session I – Keynote Speaker ................................................................................. 16 Parallel Sessions I: Looking Ahead - Supporting the music students towards a professional career .................................................................................................................. 17 1 – Towards a Platform for Learning in Teaching .............................................................. 17 2 – Audience Engagement .............................................................................................................. 18 3 – The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur: Next Steps ................................................. 20 4 – Knowledge, Skills and Competences: the Revised AEC Learning Outcomes . 21 5 – Thinking International .............................................................................................................. 22 Parallel Sessions II: Looking Around – Opening ourselves to variety and diversity ........................................................................................................................................ 24 1 - Beyond the West, Beyond the Classical: Folk and World Music experiences24 2 – Addressing the Challenge of Refugees in our Institutions ...................................... 25 3 – Music and Gender ....................................................................................................................... 27 4 – How do you make sure students voice is heard in your institution ................... 27 5 – More Music in the Classroom: an innovative Dutch programme to enhance cognitive, emotional, social and creative competences of all children ................ 29 Parallel Sessions III: Services offered to the membership (not repeated) ........ 30 1 – Presentation of the AEC-U-Multirank Pilot project ................................................... 30 2 – MusiQuE – a new concept of quality in higher music education ......................... 31 3 – Presentation of the new Standards for Pre-College Education and Classroom Teacher Education Programmes ................................................................................................. 32 3 Regional Meetings with Council Members ....................................................................... 34 Supporting Documents ............................................................................................................ 35 MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement ............................................................................... 35 DOCUMENTS FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ........................................................................ 37 Agenda ........................................................................................................................................... 38 Minutes of the AEC General Assembly 2015 .................................................................. 39 AEC STRATEGIC PLAN 2011-2015 - Targets for 2015 and progress made by June 2016 .................................................................................................................................... 48 AEC STRATEGIC PLAN 2016-2020: Targets and Progress by summer/fall 2016 ......................................................................................................................................................... 52 AEC Council Elections 2016 – CVs and Statements of Candidates ......................... 68 Eirik Birkeland (Candidate for Presidency) ........................................................................... 68 Deborah Kelleher (Candidate for Vice-presidency) .......................................................... 70 Harrie van den Elsen (Candidate for Secretary General) .............................................. 72 Lucia Di Cecca (Candidate for Council) .................................................................................. 73 Elisabeth Gutjahr (Candidate for Council) ............................................................................ 75 Kaarlo Hildén (Candidate for Council) .................................................................................... 76 Zdzisław Łapiński (Candidate for Council) ............................................................................ 77 Ranko Marković (Candidate for Council) ................................................................................ 79 Jacques Moreau (Candidate for Council) ............................................................................... 81 Peter Swinnen (Candidate for Council) .................................................................................. 83 Election rules and principles for Council elections .................................................... 85 Final report from the AEC Working Group for the development of field-based indicators for music in U-Multirank ................................................................................... 87 Proposed Membership Fees for 2017 ............................................................................... 93 Applications for the MusiQuE Board (2016) ................................................................... 96 Ettore Borri (IT) .................................................................................................................................. 98 Bernd Clausen (DE) ........................................................................................................................ 101 Report on Regional Meetings – Glasgow, AEC Congress 2015 .................................. 104 Germany, Austria, Switzerland ................................................................................................ 104 Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ......... 104 4 Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Macedonia, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia ................................................................................................................ 106 Netherlands, Belgium ................................................................................................................... 107 UK, Ireland ......................................................................................................................................... 108 Poland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia .... 109 Italy ........................................................................................................................................................ 109 France, Luxembourg ...................................................................................................................... 110 Portugal, Spain ................................................................................................................................. 113 Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt ............................................................ 115 PRACTICAL INFORMATION ....................................................................................................... 117 Floor Plans ................................................................................................................................ 118 Maps ............................................................................................................................................ 119 Relevant Addresses ............................................................................................................... 122 Taxi Numbers .......................................................................................................................... 122 Telephone Numbers Event Coordinators ..................................................................... 122 Public Transport ..................................................................................................................... 123 Hotels .........................................................................................................................................